Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Officer Megure shook his head and said with a wry smile: "No... I can't tell the difference at all..."

Outside the room, Detective Chiba and Xiaolan were pushed by a group of media reporters until their backs were pressed against the door. The reporters loudly demanded to enter the room to interview and report on Maori Kogoro's reasoning show.

“Let me in!”

“Let me interview you!”

"Let me broadcast Kogoro Maori's mystery show live!"

"Yes, let's go in and report!"

“Let us in!”

Chiba Detective and Xiaolan both raised their hands to cover their chests, trying not to be crushed by the crazy media reporters, "Hey, wait a minute... Oops!"

In the room, Leonardo, the third tester, also successfully walked through the narrow path formed by a long table and several bags and came in front of Maori.

Leonardo put his hands on his hips, looked down at the strange detective in front of him, and asked: "OK?"

"Yes!" Mao Li replied, "Finally, it's Mr. Ushiru..."

"Oh..." Niu Ruyan responded nervously.

Leonardo took off his wolf mask, walked up to Niu Ruyan and handed him the mask.

Niu Ruyan took the wolf mask and put it on his head, asking, "Is it okay to just put this on and walk over?"

Officer Megure said impatiently: "Brother Mao, Mao Li, you must have some intention in doing this, right? But you didn't tell us what we should pay attention to, we don't understand at all...ah..."

He uttered the word "Ah" because he suddenly saw that Niu Ruyan did not walk directly to Mao Li as smoothly as the three people did just now, but walked forward slowly step by step, shaking his head and looking left and right as he walked, and his steps were crooked and deviated from a straight line.

“……” Seeing Niu Ruyan’s actions, Inspector Megure and Detective Takagi both widened their eyes, because they finally saw the difference between the four people.

When Niu Ruyan walked halfway in an awkward manner, he suddenly tripped over a bag beside him with his right foot and could not stop in time. He screamed "Ah! Ah!" twice and fell to the ground.

Xiao Ai ran to Niu Ruyan's left hand side and whispered: "Are you okay?"

"Hmm?" Niu Ruyan's vision and hearing were blocked by the mask, and for a moment he really didn't know who was talking or where the person was, so he glanced forward and left, but didn't see Xiao Ai standing on his left, "Huh?"

Xiao Ai gently patted Niu Ruyan's left shoulder and said with a smile: "It's me!"

Niu Ruyan half-raised his body and tilted his head to the left, only then could he see Xiao Ai clearly, "Ah, ah, it's a kid... It's okay..." As he said that, he stood up, reached out to take off the mask, and said to Maori in front of him: "Is this okay, Mr. Detective?"

“…Although I was just guessing just now, it’s clear now…Mr. Ushiiri, you are the murderer of Mr. Nagase!!”

Except for Maori and Ai, everyone else in the room was shocked to hear this and stared with eyes wide in disbelief.

Niu Ruyan's face changed drastically, and he stammered: "What did you say?!"

Detective Gao Mu suddenly realized: "It's the same! He is shaking his head just like the murderer in the videotape!"

"Shaking your head?" Niuren Yan turned his head and looked at Detective Takagi.

Chapter 182: Mountain Demon's Sharp Blade

Maori said in a deep voice: "Yes, you will know after putting on the mask. The wrestler's mask has a very narrow field of view. People who are not used to it will find it difficult to grasp the situation in front of them, so they will unconsciously look around and trip over things in the blind spot at their feet... In other words, the Okami who is used to wearing the werewolf mask, Leonardo who wears the werewolf mask with changing color rings, and Sakuma who often acts as the substitute of the Okami and wears a mask can be eliminated from the suspects. The only one who is not used to that mask is you!"

Niu Ruyan was sweating profusely, staring at Mao Li in front of him. After his face twitched a few times, he forced a smile and said, "Ha... I just shook my head and tripped over something, so you think I'm the murderer?"

Search

Maori said coldly: "You want evidence?! It's all captured on video! It's what Xiao Ai just said, behind the mask..."

Detective Takagi immediately took the camera, turned on the LCD screen, and called up the image of the mask on the back of the murderer's head captured on the videotape, and looked at it carefully with Inspector Megure.

Mao Li reminded: "It's exposed, right? The extra things..."

"Ah..." Detective Takagi suddenly realized, "The mask has four strings?! So that's how it is! The murderer wore a thin mask for eating inside the mask! In this way, there won't be any of the murderer's hair inside the bloodstained mask!"

Inspector Megure nodded repeatedly, "So that's how it is. So even though the victim scratched the murderer's mask, there were no traces of the murderer's skin fibers left under his fingernails!"

Xiao Ai held up a black and white wolf mask and pretended to be curious and asked, "Is this the mask for eating? It fell out of my uncle's pocket when he fell just now..."

Niu Ruyan was sweating profusely and argued: "Ah, no, I carried it with me to scare young people. It is different from the mask worn by the murderer..."

"But it's very strange - the werewolf mask is obviously black and white, why are there so many red dots on the right eye of this mask?" Xiao Ai looked at the mask in her hand, pretending to suddenly think of it, and said happily: "Oh, right! The right eye of the mask on top was torn, and the inside was splashed with blood!"

Niu Ruyan stared at Xiao Ai with his eyes fixed, and roared, "You, you damned little devil..."

"Okay, let's stop here!" Officer Megure came over and put his hand on Ushiruyan's left shoulder. Detective Takagi also walked to Ushiruyan's right hand side, "Please follow us back to the police station..."

At this moment, Niu Ruyan suddenly jumped up, and his two big hands, like palm leaf fans, moved at the same time, pressing on the back of the heads of Inspector Megure and Detective Takagi, and then he pulled them in front of himself, causing their heads to collide. With a dull bang, Inspector Megure and Detective Takagi suddenly saw stars and fainted.

"Get out of the way!!" Niu Ruyan yelled and ran out.

"Hey, Niu Ru?!"

Zuo Xiong Haozhi reached out and grabbed Niu Ruyan's sportswear, trying to stop him from leaving.

Niu Ruyan tilted his head slightly, glared fiercely, and roared: "I said, go away!!!"

Then he turned around and used the same method to deal with Hiroyuki Sakuma and Leonardo who were blocking his way.

Outside the room, Xiaolan, who was blocking the door with her back against the door panel, vaguely heard a strange noise in the room. She couldn't help but frowned slightly, and a question mark popped up in her mind.

Niu Ruyan half-knelt on the ground, looking at Zuo Xionghaozhi and Leonardo who fainted on the ground, and shouted while panting:

"Ah, yes, it was me... to that bastard who betrayed us and wanted to sell us out to Wan Guo Wrestling!!"

The great god Jingqing was panicked by what happened in half a minute. He tried to comfort Niu Ruyan: "Niu Ru, calm down!"

“I’m not here for just this!!!”

Niu Ruyan stood up suddenly, roared, pulled the folding chair beside him, and swept it towards Dashen Jingqing's left knee. Dashen Jingqing was unable to react in time, and his left knee, which had not yet recovered, was immediately hit. He cried out in pain, trembling all over, hugged his injured knee, and knelt on the ground.

Niu Ruyan yelled madly: "I also plan to frame you for the crime and take your werewolf identity away from me, so that I can become a werewolf!!!"

Outside the room, Xiaolan asked Detective Chiba beside her, "Did you hear any strange noises just now?"

"Huh?" Detective Chiba was stunned and shook his head.

Niu Ruyan threw away the folding chair in his hand, picked up the wolf mask belonging to the great god Jingqing, and laughed: "Yes, yes... As long as I wear this mask, I will be..."

"You can't become a werewolf!"

Mao Li's solemn voice interrupted Niu Ruyan's delusion, "The mask can only cover your face, but it can't cover your evil heart that brings shame to the wrestlers..."

As he spoke these words, Maori's fist touched the opponent's chin - KO!

……

On this day, it was the day when Professor Agasa led the team to go camping. Maori was woken up by Ai early in the morning. After getting ready, he went to the professor's house to pick up a group of kids who were having fun playing video games.

After arriving at Dr. Agasa's house, Maori discovered that Dr. Agasa's foot accidentally hit the steps last night, so he couldn't take the children camping, and this time he was the only one leading the team.

In desperation, Maori yawned and took a long time to get on the road with the sleepy children. Maori simply drove Dr. Agasa's old Beetle, since the children's things were all loaded on it.

The destination is in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture. No one knows if there will be any incidents, but just finding the way is a bit of a headache for Maori.

The road to Gunma Prefecture was fine at the beginning, but the key part was the mountain road in the second half. I don't know what happened to the satellite navigation system that Dr. Agasa installed on the car later, but it was a bit erratic today.

"We seem to be lost..." Ayumi looked worriedly at the deep mountains and forests shrouded in night.

"It's okay, our car is fine and there won't be any problems. Unless it has a flat tire, we might be trapped here..." Conan said.

"boom!"

The tire seemed to have hit a sharp stone and suddenly burst and deflated, and Maori had to stop the car.

"Hey, there are too many things in the car..."

Mao Li got out of the car to check the front tire. It was completely deflated after a blowout, and the tent on the roof was tilted slightly.

"Uncle Maori," Conan had a bad feeling, "Professor Agasa should have prepared a spare tire in the car, right?"

"Yes, but..." Mao Li checked the trunk where the luggage was placed speechlessly, "He doesn't seem to have prepared the tools to change the tire..."

"what?"

Maori looked at the dark sky with a headache. The surrounding woods were cold and deserted, and the sound of insects added a bit of horror.

"Really? We took the wrong road and it's already so late," Conan looked around helplessly, "and there haven't been any cars passing by here since the beginning. This place should be very far from the campsite... I have no choice but to sleep here for one night..."

"Ah?" Ayumi and the others all changed their expressions.

"What? Anyway, we are here to camp, and we have brought all our tools..."

"But, but... don't you think this mountain is a little weird?" Ayumi listened to the strange bird calls coming from all around with fear.

"It looks like a monster will appear..."

"Yes... they are all in the old stories, like the man-eating ghost lady... and the mountain goblin lady..."

"You guys are always like this every time you go to the mountains," Mao Li searched in the woods for a while, then returned to the car and said, "Well, even if there are any monsters, I'm here. There happens to be a big house over there. Let's go over and ask, maybe we can stay for a night..."

"Big house?!" Ayumi and the others reacted even more strongly.

"Isn't it weird to have only one house in such a deep mountain?"

"Indeed," Conan saw the light of a house through the woods, "There are no other lights around here, which means there is only this family..."

Xiao Ai teased: "Yeah, it's almost as if she was waving at us, saying come here, come here..."

"Please," Maori drooped his eyelids and looked at Xiao Ai who was not afraid of making trouble to scare children, "I will go over and take a look first. Whether to set up a tent in the woods or stay overnight, you decide for yourselves."

"Uh..." Ayumi and the others hesitated.

"It doesn't seem very safe to camp here..."

The house on the other side of the woods is a large wooden house with a thatched roof. Although it looks a bit old, it is not shabby at all. On the contrary, it is quite beautiful. The towering roof makes it look like something from a fairy tale world. The pale yellow light also dispels some of the loneliness.

Just as Maori was about to knock on the door, he heard footsteps behind him, and Ayumi and the others followed him.

"Well," Mitsuhiko laughed dryly, "We have to live in the house of the mountain goblin. I will do my best to protect Huibara and Ayumi..."

"Really?" Maori's eyelids twitched slightly.

Mitsuhiko is such a cautious guy...

Maori went forward and knocked on the door. Mitsuhiko and Genta, who had vowed to do so, immediately held their breath. Ai, who had been following Maori, laughed sinisterly and said, "Can you be eaten instead of me?"

“Ah?” Mitsuhiko was stunned. “It seems that… the mountain goblin should think that Genta has more fat and looks more delicious… or Uncle Mori, he is a famous detective, he must taste good!”

Mao Li glanced at Mitsuhiko and said nothing.

The fat boy Yuan Tai said angrily: "You can also use it to make soup!"

"Squeak!" The wooden door of the house opened, revealing a scary old face with disheveled hair and a kitchen knife in his hand.

"You are……"

"Old lady," Mao Li saw who was coming and asked without bothering to hide from Ayumi and the others behind him, "Our car has a flat tire, can you let us stay for one night?"

The old man looked at the children behind Mao Li in surprise and said, "Of course, I can, but I don't have anything good to treat you. If you don't mind, please come in..."

"Thank you."

"Cuckoo!"

From time to time, strange bird calls could be heard in the dim forest. The timid Mitsuhiko tightened his backpack, swallowed his saliva, and followed Maori into the house.

The old man's name is Tanaka Iwae, and he is over 70 years old. He looks scary at first glance, but he seems ordinary after entering the house.

"Does the old lady live alone?" Maori noticed a pair of slippers placed alone in the entrance hall. It seemed that no one used them. He didn't know why they were put there.

"Yes, I am the only one in the family, and everyone in the neighborhood has moved to the town," the old man glanced back at the slippers, "These are my grandson Xiangtai's slippers, who left home 10 years ago after saying he wanted to be a chef. He took them off and left them here. There are still slippers in the shoe cabinet, so you can wear the ones inside."

"Your grandson..."

The wooden floor of the living room looked quite old. There was a charcoal pit in the middle for warming up the fire and a goldfish tank inside.

Maori put down his luggage, put on slippers from the shoe cabinet next to him and followed the old man. He happened to see a photo frame on the table. It contained a photo of a young man and an old man. It seemed to be a very early time and the old man still looked quite kind.

"He seems to be doing well now, and he sends a lot of money every month," the old man snorted when he saw the photo frame, "but I didn't touch a penny of the money from this unreliable and heartless man..."

"Yes, yes..."

Maori secretly wiped the sweat off his face.

If you hate your grandson, why do you keep the photo? And you keep the slippers in the entrance hall, you must miss your grandson very much...

This is good. With the old man alone at home, he doesn't have to worry about what might happen. He can have a good sleep and think of a way to leave tomorrow...

"Okay," the old man interrupted his thoughts and said, "Put your luggage aside and sit for a while. I'll go prepare a room for you... There may not be enough quilts..."